5 steps to beautiful teeth

You do not have to make much effort to be proud of your teeth. It is enough to devote approximately 10 - 15 minutes per day to oral hygienic procedures carried out properly and carefully, and once every few months go to the dental office for a dental check-up.

A recently conducted survey revealed a quite alarming picture of the Poles: almost 11% of women and 30% of men do not wash their teeth (!), And 99% of adults have tooth decay. Over 30% of young people lose their first tooth before adulthood.

Here are the steps to success, which is a healthy, beautiful smile:

1. Carefully remove the residual food debris from between your teeth with a toothpick. Please do it carefully in order not to damage the gums. Do not push the toothpick between the teeth by force, but move it subtly in the direction to remove the residue food.

2. Gargle your mouth with mouthwash, which softens the sediment and helps to remove it from the enamel.

3. Brushing and flossing - put toothpaste on a dry, soft brush and gently wash the teeth. Do not scrub them too hard, because you can damage the enamel or gums, which can cause inflammation of the periodontal tissues. Do not move brush along the teeth, but use sweeping motions away from the gums towards the tooth crown. Finish the brushing with cleaning the tangue; it collects a lot of bacteria responsible for caries development. For the brushing of gaps between teeth we apply the a brush similar to bottle cleaners. Flossing removes sediment from the hard to reach gaps.

4. Rinsing after brushing - it is a very important part of oral hygiene. Brushing is useless if you do not gargle your mouth with water afterwards. The water removes the remains swept away from the teeth and refreshes your mouth. After rinsing your mouth with water, it is also good to use a special mouthwash after brushing.

5. Control the health of your teeth regularly at the dentist, at least once every six months, and if you notice disturbing changes in the enamel, visit a dental office as soon as possible.

All you need to know about dental Implants

Implantology - a branch of dentistry dealing with the reconstruction of teeth by means of elements implanted in the oral cavity.

Dental Implant - an element implanted in the oral cavity (usually in the bone), which replaces the root of the tooth.

Just a few years ago, implants were rarely used in dentistry because of frequent complications and short-term usage of implants. The area is currently developing very quickly. Thanks to advances in science, research and application of new materials, in 90% of the cases, the treatment by this method is effective. Therefore, it is more popular than traditional prosthetic treatment. Unfortunately, however, it is also more expensive.

Dental Implants Poland should be carried out by dental surgeon in cooperation with prosthodontist or by a person trained in these two areas.

Implants are used when there is no tooth which could support the prosthesis. So they replace the roots and pose a connection of the artificial teeth with the bone.

They can serve as:

- a replacement of individual teeth,

- a pillar for crowns, bridges, partial or complete dentures,

- an improvement of the stability of the prosthesis.

- They are also the basis for the treatment of cases of alveolus bone loss.

The number of implants does not need to be equal with the number of the missing teeth. In the absence of one tooth one implant is implanted, however, in case of larger number of missing teeth, the number of implants is usually smaller (eg, 6 implants in the toothless jaw).

Implantology uses the following materials:

- titanium - the best and therefore most commonly used,

- titanium alloys,

- gold alloys,

- ceramics (eg ceramic glass).

These materials are used in implantology because of their biocompatibility, meaning the tolerance of tissues of the body, which does not treat them as foreign elements and therefore does not activate the defense system to reject them. This enables integration of the bone (osseointegration), the complete fusion of the bone with the implant, which occurs after a few months after implant placement in the bone.

Sweeteners - what you should know

- Sweeteners substitute sugar added to food in order to achieve a sweet taste. These are also substances used in table sweeteners. They are a few to several thousand times sweeter than sucrose. The intensity of the sweetness of a particular sweetener can be enhanced by the addition of other sweetening substances- the synergism phenomenon is used here.

- Sweeteners used synergistically do not only give food a sweet taste but are also used to mask the taste of other sweeteners defects. The property of strengthening and reinforcing certain flavors and aromas of certain sweeteners is used here.

- In order to regard a particular substance as sweetener, it should meet at least one of the following purposes: replacing sugar in food of low caloric value, in food not causing tooth decay, in food without sugar, substituting sugar, if it enables to extend the expiry date of a product.

- Ill people should carefully read the leaflets informing about the composition of the product. In the case of certain diseases, using sweeteners is not recommended. 

- Due to the intense sweetness, these substances are added to foods in very small quantities - so they do not modify the energy value of food product.

- Despite the intensely sweet taste, sweeteners do not affect the development of caries, because pathogenic bacteria do not decompose the sweeteners and they do not produce any organic acids damaging to the enamel.

- The table sweeteners are preparations of permitted sweeteners, which may contain other additives to foods or food ingredients and which are intended for sale to the ultimate consumer as a substitute for sugar.

- For intensive sweeteners are classified: synthetic substances obtained by chemical synthesis and natural intensive sweeteners.

Healthy lifestyle: choice, regime or necessity?

Is teeth whitening or the correction of their size still fashion or a social necessity? And the demand that your dentist start dental treatment of even the smallest inflammation in the mouth: is it just taking good care of your health or the evidence of oversensitivity and hypochondria? We should seek answers in the reasons that push people to make decisions concerning their health. If the motive is the need to satisfy your personal desire to preserve health and beauty, then there is no reason for concern. However, if the choices are the result of a social or media pressure, the matter may be cause for concern.

We are increasingly facing the pressure of leading a healthy lifestyle. This trend is imposed by the media, advertising, labor market and even friends and family. Some people ask the question: is it still a fashion or a dictatorship now? Prevention is a very important factor thanks to which you can enjoy a longer fitness and beauty of your body and mind. But do you really take up the activities because of your own free will, or the decision is somewhat forced by social influences?

More and more specialists examine the problem of the potential dictatorship over health- not only in the field of medicine. The more cautious ones warn that we dangerously approached the phenomenon that is sometimes referred to as "health fascism". People become well aware of the risks associated with the unhealthy lifestyle, many of them even take the paranoia precautions. Moreover, some natural phenomena occurring in the body are increasingly being treated like a disease to be tested and treated, such as menopause. There is an interest to continue to show the new threat on the market, which makes it necessary for us to monitor our health.

The key, which will allow you to treat the rush towards maintaining good health with distance, is the answer to the question: who is telling you to be healthy and why. If you are, it's good, because decisions will be the result of your own desires. If the reason is different, you should think about your rush to healthy living. It may turn out that this race for health is the result of overwhelming influence of the media information, or is taken under the pressure of the environment in which you live.